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Are you ready for a touch-screen computer? I'm pretty sure we're all going to be using our fingers on the screen eventually. I say this because I've been testing the HP Pavilion 11t-n000 x360 (we'll just call it the x360) for the last few weeks, and I'm liking the touch screen more than I thought I would. At first glance, the x360 ($399) looks like a plain old HP netbook, but what makes it stand out is its hinge that attaches the screen to the laptop's body. As the x360's name might imply, the hinge allows the screen to rotate all the way around to allow you to use it like a tablet (the keyboard is flat against the opposite side of the screen). You...

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Are you ready for a touch-screen computer?I'm pretty sure we're all going to be using our fingers on the screen eventually.I say this because I've been testing the HP Pavilion 11t-n000 x360 (we'll just call it the x360) for the last few weeks, and I'm...

Here are some useful new gadgets that could make your kid's school year better — if you don't keep and use them yourself!
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Collegiates can ward off the "freshman 15" (pounds) weight gain and otherwise keep stress in check...

I became the owner of a 1967 Porsche 912 in March 2009, a few months after my brother Alan died unexpectedly of a heart attack in California, where he lived. At a memorial service for him on the campus of Stanford University, his wife offered me Alan’s...

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These three hybrid devices are light like a tablet but allow you hassle-free access to traditional Windows programs.
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 ($900 for 64 gigabytes of storage; $120 to $130 for an optional keyboard). The...

Microsoft Corp.'s new chief executive has signaled a new era for the company with a heavy finger on the delete key, erasing 18,000 jobs — 14% of the workforce.
Six months into the job, CEO Satya Nadella is targeting a red-tape culture that has rested...

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With back-to-school time just around the corner, tablets remain an essential part of education at any grade level these days. But there's no reason that students can't study hard and then play hard on the very same device. Here are five...

— There's really no better way to see a place than by foot.
Even if the path is 26.2 miles and goes over a 13,800-foot mountain pass.
And it's a race.
Running a marathon in June along the Inca Trail, high in the Peruvian Andes, seemed like a good...

Name: Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S
What it is: a laptop computer with a flip-and-fold hinge that allows the 11.6-inch HD touch-screen display to flex 360 degrees away from its keyboard for use as a tablet or video monitor. Yoga 11S features a speedy Intel...

Netflix's profit jumped dramatically in the fourth quarter as it added more than 4 million subscribers around the globe, bringing its total to more than 44 million members.
The streaming giant posted profit of $48 million, or 79 cents per share, an...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Syria's civil war and political strife in Egypt have thrown up new battlegrounds on the Web and driven a surge in cyber attacks in the Middle East, according to a leading Internet security company. More than half of incidents in the Gulf...

DreamWorks Animation marketing chief Anne Globe has resigned from her job after 17 years with the Glendale-based studio.
DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg told his staff Monday morning that Globe had "made the decision to leave...

Viacom Inc., parent of MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, is closing in on a deal with Sony Corp. to have its networks carried via an Internet distribution system the consumer electronics and entertainment company is developing that would potentially be...

The band hasn't specified the venue, but Arcade Fire said Tuesday it will play a concert in Los Angeles at an outdoor location on Oct. 29, the same day its highly anticipated new album, "Reflektor," is due in stores.
The show is part of MTV and...

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The Arcade Fire keeps on burning.
Hot on the heels of two small-scale warehouse shows in New York, the Canadian indie-rock band on Monday released a new song from its upcoming album,...

What with taking off our shoes and belts at airports, discovering the feds are hoovering up all our phone records, and watching drone strikes and SEAL raids around the globe, it's sometimes easy to forget that America has escaped the horror of another...

In case you’ve been lost at sea and starved of Instagram, Twitter and potable drinking water for the last six months, the Arcade Fire have a new album out Tuesday called "Reflektor." A few years in the making and mostly produced by the band with...

Sony Corp. is getting into a new facet of the TV business: launching an Internet service that will bring live television programs and on-demand content into the home.
Andrew House, chief executive of the Sony Computer Entertainment Group, unveiled...

When Madonna declared herself fed up over the "death of creativity" after a world tour in which religious conservatives protested her concert in Poland, fascist skinheads heckled her in France and she received terrorist threats in Russia, the...

Sen. Jay D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee, is introducing a bill aimed at giving a boost to new digital video services that are trying to compete against established pay-television distributors.
The Consumer Choice...

The PlayStation 4 debuts today, sparking a new round in the battle over your attention span, thumb endurance and, ultimately, checkbook. But despite all the fanfare over Sony’s latest release, the PS4 will only enjoy a week alone in the spotlight, with...